http://blog.avantgame.com/2010/01/urgent-evoke.html
We’re launching a new alternate reality game. It’s called EVOKE, and we’re putting together a team of five game assistants to help us run it.
“If you have a problem, and you can’t solve it alone, EVOKE it.”
About the game
The goal of the game is to help empower young people all over the world, and especially young people in Africa, to come…
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http://blog.urgentevoke.net/2010/07/28/top-ideas-from-mission-10-the-future-of-evoke/
What will happen in Season 2?
Posted by kiyashmonsef on 28 Jul under Behind the scenes
At the end of the first season of EVOKE, players proposed ideas for the future of the game.
At our post-game meeting today, the lead team read through every suggestion posted to the site, and pulled…
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98801-Urgent-Evoke-Asks-Players-to-Make-the-World-a-Better-Place
A new "alternate reality game" will allow players to make a difference in the real world and in their personal life.
Urgent Evoke is a alternate-reality game created by game designer Jane McGonigal that launches March 3. It is a game designed to cause…
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more tasks!
Well if MDV can do it so can I. I have a cycle of heroes in my set (Generations), and happen to be stumped for flavour text. I will provide a backstory for each so you can better understand their significance. You will be marked out of ten. Because I say so. I will judge on SUNDAY THE 22TH.
Edit: Wow, completely forgot about the…
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LEARN MORE!Crisis Communication
“There are a lot of special things about outbreaks, but most important is that they're unfolding events. Nobody really knows where they're going and, especially in the beginning, there's high outrage and high concern in the absence of knowing what the hazard is”
– D*** Thompson, Team Leader, WHO Pandemic and Outbreak…
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Bearers Of Wisdom
The Elderly
In tribal cultures, the elderly play an important role. They are the keepers of the tribe's memories and the holders of wisdom. As such, the elderly are honored and respected members of tribes. In many modern cultures, however, this is often not the case. Many elderly people say that they feel ignored, left out, and disrespected. This is a sad commentary on modernization, but it doesn't have to be this way. We can change this situation by taking the time…
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http://www.cbnrm.net/members/cases/cases.html
Identification of the case
The community we wish to use as a case-study is situated on a small (12 km circ**ference) island lying 1.3km off the capital island of Efate, Vanuatu. The inshore area surrounding the island is characterized by a fringing reef with some bommies and sand patches. The community has a common-property regime in place which gives primary access rights…
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By 2020, Ojai will have a stable resilience plan. There are now organic farms where country clubs, parks, or housing development used to be. The food from these farms is sold at the four farmers' markets that have been started around Ojai. Two hospitals have been set up on either end of town making them easily accessible to everyone. There is also three new emergency housing sites that can provide any displaced families shelter until they can safely move back into their homes.…
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HERE IS THE PLAN! Why Transition?
We are living in an age of unprecedented change, with a number of crises converging. Climate change, global economic instability, overpopulation, erosion of community, declining biodiversity, and resource wars, have all stemmed from the availability of cheap, non-renewable fossil fuels. Global oil, gas…
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Here for more info! For decades, California has epitomized America's economic strengths: technological excellence, artistic creativity, agricultural fecundity and an intrepid entrepreneurial spirit. Yet lately California has projected a grimmer vision of a politically divided, economically stagnant state. Last week its legislature cut a deal to close its $42 billion budget deficit, but its larger problems…
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My school, Oak Grove School, has financially supports the program called School in A Box.
It has all the materials neccessary to get a grammar school level education. The games/ assignments in the box are light and easily portable. Completing the assignments works like a game and once a person completes a certain number of assignments they move up a level. The system is…
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